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Understanding Your Students

Understanding Your Students. Brian Parr- The University Of Georgia. The Reflective Teacher. Students were thought of as empty vessels -“Tabula Rosa” Teachers were the source of knowledge and it was the student’s responsibility to learn. The Reflective Teacher.

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Understanding Your Students

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  1. Understanding Your Students Brian Parr- The University Of Georgia

  2. The Reflective Teacher • Students were thought of as empty vessels -“Tabula Rosa” Teachers were the source of knowledge and it was the student’s responsibility to learn.

  3. The Reflective Teacher • The reflective teacher constantly evaluates the effectiveness of their instruction. • Then adapt their instruction to the needs of their students. • Draw on the experiences of the students • Deemphasize lecture and encourage student involvement. • Poor Scholar Soliloquy

  4. Adaptive Teaching • Achieving a common instructional goal with learners of differing learning styles, abilities, etc. • 2 effective approaches • Remediation Approach • Compensatory Approach

  5. Remediation • Effort is made to level the playing field. • Review of math skills before you teach a lesson that involves math.

  6. Compensatory Approach • Method “compensates” for lack of ability or knowledge among students. • Group work • Visuals • Authentic Situations

  7. Intelligence???Howard GardnerFrames of Mind (1983) Challenged that “intelligence could be objectively measured and reduced to a single number or “IQ” score MA 12 ma 12 ma IQ = ------- IQ=100 ------ IQ=133 ------- PA 12 pa 9 pa

  8. Environment vs. Heredity • Are learners born or made? • Language in the homes of minorities. • Can you make up for bad genes??

  9. The Eight Intelligences • Linguistic Intelligence - the capacity to use words effectively, either orally or in writing. • Logical-Mathematical Intelligence - the capacity to use numbers effectively and reason well • Spatial Intelligence - the ability to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately and perform transformations upon those perceptions

  10. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence - expertise in using one’s body to express ideas and feeling. • Musical Intelligence - the capacity to perceive, discriminate, transform, and express musical forms. • Interpersonal Intelligence - the ability to perceive and make distinctions in the moods, intentions, motivations, and feelings of others.

  11. Intrapersonal - self knowledge and the ability to act adaptively on the basis of that knowledge.

  12. Naturalist Intelligence- observing, understanding, and organizing patterns in the natural environment.

  13. Sternberg’s Definition • Intelligence is the ability to learn and think using previously discovered patterns and relationships to solve new problems in unfamiliar contexts.

  14. Peer Groups • Build groups from different peer groups. • Use students as mentors for less mature. • Build students up to each other before forming groups.

  15. Systems-Ecological Perspective The learner’s behavior is a product of multiple influences that may be conflicting.

  16. Biases in the Classroom • Expectations- The self-fulfilling prophesy. • Tigers, Cardinals and Clowns.

  17. Eliminating Bias • Spread interactions evenly. • Give special assignments randomly. • Pair opposites.

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